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by jbellis 15y ago
Linux is written almost entirely by employees of for-profit companies: http://lwn.net/Articles/451243/ Many core Python contributors including Guido are employed by companies like Google to work on it. Mozilla is, technically, an exceptio
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by jbellis 15y ago
Microsoft came up with the term "shared source" to describe "you can look at the source but you have no rights to modify or redistribute it."
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by jbellis 15y ago
Does it support ECC ram? None of the other ARM servers I've seen yet have.
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by jbellis 15y ago
Too bad there's been essentially zero activity on MRI for over a year.
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by jbellis 15y ago
Agreed, this is something that takes a little getting used to. Diagrams help: http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/ddl/index Max's posts also include some good examples, although they predate some features like column indexes: http://maxgrin
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by jbellis 15y ago
Yeah, gmane sucks that way. Alternate archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg180...
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by jbellis 15y ago
dtrace.org is not affiliated with dtrace-the-project. It's just a bunch of ex-Sun guys who share the domain.
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by jbellis 15y ago
And yet... there's an awful lot of Mac users on HN.
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by jbellis 15y ago
Another satisfied Tree Style Tabs user here. After the AwesomeBar, that's the number two thing keeping me on FireFox. Especially now that version 7 cut its memory footprint in half.
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by jbellis 15y ago
The full report is here: http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/quarterly-ven...
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by jbellis 15y ago
Sort of. (a) the times you want to dedicate more than one core to compaction are rare, and (b) you can still use multiple cores within a compaction set. I'll update the post with more details.
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by jbellis 15y ago
And Impress still sucks. :( Trying to re-adapt after using Keynote for a year. It's rough. Even the simple things, like having to click half a dozen times to find the "edge" of a text box, because clicking in the middle either does nothing
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by jbellis 15y ago
Can you elaborate? A lot of beginner level material explains "pull" as a combination of "fetch" + "merge." What makes the latter saner?
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by jbellis 15y ago
(This is part 2 of 4 planned about Cassandra 1.0. Part 1, compression, is linked at the bottom of this. Parts 3 and 4 will cover leveldb-based compaction and performance.)
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by jbellis 15y ago
From the slides it's not 100% clear, but as Erik from Urban Airship commented here [1], "[they] are still heavy users of Cassandra." [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3015475
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by jbellis 15y ago
As much as I like pg, I don't think there's anything magical it can do to fix this when the database is given a write-heavy workload such that the [sequential] commitlog appends outstrip the ability to do the [random] b-tree updates. Which
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by jbellis 15y ago
In particular, "[immigration] disproportionately brings low-skill workers into the U.S. instead of moving jobs abroad. As immigration increases the relative supply of low-skill workers, the income of individuals at the 20th percentile decli
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by jbellis 15y ago
SmartOS is the OpenSolaris fork. http://www.joyent.com/products/smartos/ https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live
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by jbellis 15y ago
2.9: http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPo...
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by jbellis 15y ago
Right. For the JDK developers, the First Commandment is, "Thou shalt not break existing code, ever." Almost all of the things people dislike about post-1.1 Java stems from that, especially the non-reified generics. It's valid to say "I th
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by jbellis 15y ago
PyCon is a really, really amazing deal. But don't let it set the bar unrealistically high. $600 is still very much on the low end of midsize to large conference. O'Reilly's Strata later this month is over $2000, for instance.
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by jbellis 15y ago
Apple's been heavily marketing towards college students for 20 years. What's different about it in 2011?
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by jbellis 15y ago
SimpleDB latency is bad, but not that bad.
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by jbellis 15y ago
Really? My experience with Apple stores has been so consistently terrible (long wait times WITH an appointment, techs that can't do anything but send it away for a long wait) that one reason I'm going back to a Thinkpad is the overnight ma
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by jbellis 15y ago
You sync only when both sides are up.
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by jbellis 15y ago
There's an AZ with "chronic" availability issues? Where do I find out more about this?
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by jbellis 15y ago
Workaround: run with -XX:-UseLoopPredicate. ( http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/... ) But yeah, pretty bad bug.
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by jbellis 15y ago
When I used Windows on a multi-monitor setup I never found myself wishing, "if only I had a taskbar on each monitor." (Similarly, I've never wished for multiple docks on OSX.) So YMMV.
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by jbellis 15y ago
MongoDB is not by any stretch of the imagination a graph database.
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by jbellis 15y ago
They don't need dosbox/wine -- "XP mode" in windows 7 is XP running in a virtualized environment.

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